Jim Hosking

Bio

British filmmaker Jim Hosking got his start directing promos for MTV before eventually making a name for himself directing beautifully hallucinogenic commercials for the likes of Cadbury, Travelocity, and XBox. In his short films, Little Clumps of Hair, Renegades, and Crabs, Hosking honed a knack for mixing the mundane and the fantastical, resulting in films that are often as poignant as they are willfully strange. His first feature film, 2016’s The Greasy Strangler, manages to somehow be both a sweet and sad treatise on father/son relationships and a cult-classic in the making about a grease-encrusted maniac who murders the innocent. It also features lots of cartoony gore and a prominently displayed prosthetic penis.